The Luce Center does for American art what the Greek and Roman Study Center does for classical art: it stores a lot of things not on permanent display, but in a mode accessible and well-cataloged and well-described. The Center is immense: the Met itself is immense because of its relative youth and situation in Central Park. Imagine, all the spare parts are under the same roof...
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| Helpful map |
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| Some of the silver |
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| Plates, bowls |
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| Aisle after aisle of all these things |
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| How to make a Tiffany lamp |
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| Paintings |
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| Chests |
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| More paintings...in the portraits division...note the screen whereby you can identify pieces, read descriptions... |
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| Frames |
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| More paintings |
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| Including a Mary Cassatt |
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| A Benjamin West |
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| Elliot portrait of Mathew Brady...1857...before he became really famous |
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| Glass...evidently I was overwhelmed, wandering aimlessly... |
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| Another Bierstadt... |
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| OBF |
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| Chairs dept. |
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| Overcome, we retreated to the roof-top cafe for a sunset view |
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